Vast crowds of Britons waving the Union Jack and St George flags descended on central London on Saturday for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally organised by veteran anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson.
The demonstration comes in the wake of local protests throughout the country over the Summer in opposition to the mass migration agenda imposed upon the UK and the government scheme to house supposed asylum seekers in hotels at taxpayers’ expense, which became a flashpoint of anger following the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl by an illegal immigrant from Ethiopia living in a hotel in Epping.
Robinson, a frequent target of censorship, a longtime street activist in England, and one of the early voices to warn of the plight of young working-class white girls being systematically raped and abused by mainly Pakistani Muslim child rape gangs, said that the protest on Saturday represented the start of a “cultural revolution” in the UK.
“Today, London stands tall in defence of one of our most vital rights – free speech. Over a million have gathered to make their voices heard,” Robinson claimed on X. The Metropolitan Police, which typically does not provide crowd size estimates, claimed that there were far fewer, estimating around 110,000 in attendance, according to The Telegraph.
Robinson also shared footage of “British patriots” chanting the name of American free speech activist and founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated at a university student debate event in Utah on Wednesday.
Others were seen carrying wooden crosses and signs that read “stop the boats” in reference to the illegal migrant crisis in the English Channel. Some were also seen in ‘Make England Great Again’ hats.
Addressing the crowd, actor Laurence Fox, who was cancelled from his acting career for pushing back against the leftist concept of white privilege, described the assassination of Kirk as the “most appalling thing” but said that “you can never kill the truth”.
“We will take the sword, every single time to those that try to shut down free speech,” Fox declared.
“Free speech belongs to every single one of us, it doesn’t discriminate between rich or poor. We must defend it with everything or else we will be ruled by the tyrannical hordes of angry, envious and greedy people… I pray Charlie Kirk and I pray for the great people of America and you wonderful people that came out today for our nation.”
Fox also warned against the “demographic suicide” of Britain in allowing in “untold numbers of people who have no interest in our nation, no affinity for our nation, no desire to integrate and assimilate into our nation… and we have no where else to go.”
Taking to the stage, Robinson said that the “traitors in Westminster” are “cowering” over the mass demonstration, adding a warning to the prime minister and the governing left-wing Labour Party: “The revolution has started!”
“We are done being gagged, we are done watching our communities crumble at the hands of open border, mass uncontrolled immigration. Our women, our daughters, are scared to walk the streets. Their safety has been taken from them, and what do the elite do? They took Epping community to court and they said that the rights of undocumented migrants supersede the rights of the local community.
“They told the world, that Somalians, Afghanis, Pakistanis, and all of them, their rights supersede yours, the British public, the people that built this nation, the people whose families have sacrificed for this nation.”
“They managed to silence us for twenty years with labels: racist, islamophobe, far-right. They don’t work anymore,” he proclaimed. “The damn has well and truly burst… The silent majority will be silent no longer.”
London’s Metropolitan Police said that it had deployed over 1,600 officers to police the United Kingdom rally, in addition to the counter-demonstration organised by the leftist Stand Up to Racism group, and several football matches. The police force stated that it had drafted at least 500 officers from outside London to assist in managing the crowds.
Commander Clair Haynes, who is leading the Met’s policing operations for the protests over the weekend, claimed that the force will “approach them as we do any other protests, policing without fear or favour, ensuring people can exercise their lawful rights but being robust in dealing with incidents or offences should they occur.”
Haynes also said that “officers will take a firm line on behaviour that is discriminatory or that crosses the line from protest into hate crime.”
Unlike other protests, such as the frequent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London, the Met specifically pointed out the “concerns for many in London’s Muslim communities ahead of the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protest given the record of anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents of offensive chanting by a minority at previous marches.”
“There have been some suggestions that Muslim Londoners should change their behaviour this Saturday, including not coming into town. That is not our advice. Everyone should be able to feel safe travelling into and around London. Our officers are there to ensure that is the case and we’d urge anyone who is out on Saturday and feels concerned to speak to us,” Haynes said.
At around 1 pm local time, the Met said that there had “been no incidents of note so far.” However, the force later reported that some officers had been assaulted while sharing footage apparently showing a crowd waving Antifa flags in close proximity to the Robinson rally.
This story is developing, more to follow…
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